Celebrate Christmas with the finest early music
Celebrate the holiday season in true Christmas spirit with traditional carols, masterpieces by early-music greats, and the finest vocal ensembles performing today. Immerse yourself in the finest festive performances by Stile Antico and other leading ensembles, captured during the Festival Oude Muziek Tournees.
Experience the magic of Christmas with the most beautiful early music on Early Music Television.
Stile Antico
The world's oldest story? Possibly. The most beautiful? Absolutely! For Stile Antico's Christmas chronicle, we are only too happy to make it silent. Britain's top singers walk towards the light in the footsteps of carpenter Joseph and mother-to-be Mary. They populate their colourful tableaux with songs from Medieval and Renaissance Europe: expressive soundscapes by masters such as William Byrd, Orlandus Lassus, John Sheppard and Michael Praetorius.
€ 4,99
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge / Graham Ross
Spicy gingerbread, warm wine, thousands of lights and almost as many gifts: lovely! But it won’t really be Christmas without the magnificent seasonal classics, with just the right dose of poignancy and shouts of joy. As one of the best university choirs in the world, the Choir of Clare College Cambridge is the ideal mood creator for the most beautiful time of the year. Between stillness and revelry, the singers curate the ultimate end-of-year soundtrack with age-old traditionals, festive polyphony and English choral classics from past and present.
€ 2,99
Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier
Because there is, in addition to the Christmas Oratorio, so much other brilliant Baroque music to brighten up December days, Vox Luminis is basing this Christmas programme around song repertoire from before Johann Sebastian Bach. Two cousins of Bach’s father who also belonged to the upper echelons of musical life form an immediate link. But Praetorius, Schein, Scheidt and Schütz are also represented: German music icons who brilliantly brought together rhetoric, power of expression and contrapuntal mastery almost a hundred years earlier.
€ 2,99
Tenebrae / Nigel Short
‘Breathtaking’, ‘spine-tingling’, ‘unforgettable’: in recent years reviews have propelled the British ensemble Tenebrae straight to the top of the musical world. In the run-up to Christmas the choir presents a typically English Advent programme, alternating traditional Christmas carols and contemporary repertoire. Classics such as In dulci jubilo and The Twelve Days of Christmas can be heard alongside new works by Joseph Phibbs and Joanna Marsh.
€ 2,99